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Rhona Brown
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Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚📖🗞️📰
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Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.

We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Laurence Sterne born #Onthisday 1713 "The freest spirit of the eighteenth century" (Goethe) "The most liberated spirit of all time" (Nietzsche) #LaurenceSterne #C18th #OTD
www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/sterne/
Laurence Sterne Mezzotint
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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A cough remedy to try this winter? Locally sourced, of course!
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Today in the public history column: Leadhills Library, in South Lanarkshire, founded in 1741, is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles, and brought Enlightenment learning to a remote mining village in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...
Exploring the story of the oldest library of its kind in Britain
'It was hard drinking, hard living, tough going here, back in the 18th century,' says Cameron Halfpenny, chair of the Leadhills Reading Society
www.thenational.scot
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The obituary on Elspeth King by our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social will be in tomorrow’s @theguardian.com paper if anyone would like to read a physical version
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Huge congrats, @drleith.bsky.social - this is so well deserved! 👏
funkyplaid.bsky.social Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 12d
Sincere congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social on her receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Leith is a committed and prolific scholar who continues to make major contributions to numerous fields within Scottish Studies.

www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...
Leith Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Professor Leith Davis has been recognized with a prestigious award for her outstanding contributions to 18th-century Scottish Studies over the course of her career.
www.sfu.ca
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows
Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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englishassociation.bsky.social
Announcing publication of our response to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social & team #curriculumandassessmentreview after consultation with our community & English related networks. Special thks to our Cross-Sector Educational policy lead @bobeaglestone.bsky.social

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The English Association’s response to Building a World-Class Curriculum for All: the Curriculum and Assessment Review | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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ginorgym.bsky.social
Edwin Muir’s The Day

#edwinmuir
#scottishliterature
#poetry
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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scotsman.com
🔴 Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens

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Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in gardens
The memorial will be the first dedicated to a woman in Princes Street Gardens
www.scotsman.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy? Yes we do. www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n...
Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?
Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I went on my first solo trip to the NLS last week! Great Mary finds in their collection, including Emily Hahn’s biography for children ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ (1956).

An American (and feminist?) perspective on a Scottish Queen:

‘Fifty years after Columbus discovered America Mary Stuart was born.’
Emily Hahn, Mary Queen of Scots (London: MacDonald, 1956), p.1.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
rhonabrown.bsky.social
I'm chuffed to be appointed Director and Board member for Braw Clan, an award-winning theatre company making new Scots language plays for audiences in southern Scotland. Find out more about their brilliant plays, events and laudable community work: brawclan.com
Can't wait to see where we go next.
Braw Clan
The Scots language theatre company
brawclan.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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scotunipress.bsky.social
Listen to this wonderful podcast with SUP Editorial Board member Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, recorded for #OAWeek!

Brianna discusses why #OpenAccess is so important, especially for smaller arts institutions and ECRs 🔓

Thanks to @sahavoice.bsky.social for arranging 🙏
sahavoice.bsky.social Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · Oct 22
To mark International Open Access Week, we had the pleasure of having a SAHA Conversation with Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland (@breerob-kirk.bsky.social),member of the Editorial Board of the Scottish Universities Press (@scotunipress.bsky.social)

Full episode available wherever you get your podcast
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Wilkes was a proto-populist, who utilized pictorial propaganda to gain popularity and drive public political conversation & opinion to his benefit.

He and his Wilkite faction remain useful examples when studying how political propaganda proliferate through different social orders.
historytoday.com History Today @historytoday.com · Oct 21
Parliament’s champion of the people or scandalous, self-serving politician? #Georgian radical John Wilkes kept a foot in both camps.

⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
The Radical John Wilkes
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October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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asls.org.uk
Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025

A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
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Articles Introduction: Dreaming the Daily Darg Corey Gibson Jute mill songs: Mary Brooksbank and industrial tradition in a dying industry Erin Farley ‘And On One Toils, Into The Hill’: Working and Walking in Nan Shepherd’s North East Sarah Leith Labour and (Class) Struggle in James Barke’s Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming with Rob Roy, Marx & Burns Arianna Introna Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place Corey Gibson Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow Kate Wilson James Kelman and the Impossibility of Managerial Souls Joseph H. Jackson ‘Just Get It On The Table’: Gendered Food Labour in Janice Galloway’s Fiction Gina Lyle Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, and Ewan Gibbs
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) died #OTD, 17 Oct, aged just 24. Notable for his poetry in both Scots & English, his works include “Auld Reikie”, “The Daft Days”, & “Hallow Fair”. His legacies are broad, from the literary & cultural to the medical.
#C18 #litstudies
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robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
A head and shoulders portrait in oils of Robert Fergusson by Alexander Runciman (1736–1785). Runciman has painted his friend, a young poet, lost in creative thought. His exaggerated features – huge eyes, full lips – suggest brilliance and intensity.
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#OTD in 1774, Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson died in the city’s asylum for pauper lunatics at 24. Despite the tragedy, his works are full of life, laughter and satire. My new edition of his works is out next year, but for now enjoy some treats from Project Fergusson
robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk
A statue of Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirkyard. He is not on a plinth, but walking along the street, his coattails blowing and a book in his hand. A plaque commemorating Robert Fergusson in St Giles Kirk, Edinburgh. He is in profile, looking to his right.
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Quotes from reviews of Collected Ramsay: ‘could hardly be surpassed' (Tea-Table Miscellany)
'deeply nuanced and illuminating’ (Gentle Shepherd);
‘exemplary’ (Ever Green, Prose)
‘groundbreaking’ (edition). Well done @stevenewman.bsky.social @rhonabrown.bsky.social @breerob-kirk.bsky.social & all.
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Oct 15
Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) – poet, playwright, founder of modern #Scots writing, & with a claim to be the father of #Romanticism – was born #OTD, 15 Oct. A 🎂 🧵 …
#C18
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🖼️ Allan Ramsay, 1684–1758, by William Aikman – Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Portrait of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), by William Aikman. Oil on canvas. Ramsay is clean-shaven, and looks out at the viewer with a half-smile. He wears a collarless dark green velvet coat, unbuttoned, and has an orange silk cloth wound about his head like an improvised turban.
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) – poet, playwright, founder of modern #Scots writing, & with a claim to be the father of #Romanticism – was born #OTD, 15 Oct. A 🎂 🧵 …
#C18
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🖼️ Allan Ramsay, 1684–1758, by William Aikman – Scottish National Portrait Gallery
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Portrait of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), by William Aikman. Oil on canvas. Ramsay is clean-shaven, and looks out at the viewer with a half-smile. He wears a collarless dark green velvet coat, unbuttoned, and has an orange silk cloth wound about his head like an improvised turban.
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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A gifted writer of #gothic & #horror fiction, Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) was born #OTD, 12 Oct. Haynes & her twin brother spent 4 years in Aberlour Orphanage, from 1929 to 1933: last year, we republished her long out-of-print childhood memoir, HASTE YE BACK
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Annual Volume 53 (2023)
Edited by Craig Lamont Paperback, 240 pages Association for Scottish Literature, March 2024 Price £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841591 Order from our bookshop First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Reminder: Get your ticket's for next Wednesday's event in Edinburgh at Golden Hare Books!
We look forward to celebrating our wonderful collection with you then!
rfergussonpoet.bsky.social Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 26
Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event!

Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October
at Golden Hare Books with Scotland's Makar Pàdraig MacAoidh | Peter Mackay
and a range of lovely poets!
Get your tickets ⤵️
shorturl.at/Xg3XC
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow
October 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM